Over 60% of players are playing "Lightning Spear". Where is the build diversity?

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where did you get this number from?

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LS was even buffed in 0.2.0c patch. They clearly WANT everyone playing it.

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zeddy123#4861 wrote:

As the title suggests, and I guess the number will only go up to 70 or even more percentage.

I understand everyone gravitates towards the OP builds, but the build diversity in 0.2 seems even lesser than the "broken" builds we had in 0.1.

And from my understanding in the Q/A and their recent patch update preview, it will not get nerfed.

Almost every streamer in SC is playing this build. After trying multiple builds over the past few days with Lich / monk / warrior and even bleed amazon, nothing in the game can match this, like not even close.

The build costs just 2-3 divine as of now to get started to blast tier 15-16 maps easily. If you want to do damage or clear thats even 1/5th as good as this on other classes, you need very expensive gear and jewels. What's the point in even trying to do other stuff?

I'm not asking for this to get nerfed, but could we perhaps have more SIGNIFICANT buffs on other weapons / skills? It's very demotivating to try and play any other build when we have the Spark/Herald screen blow-up back in a stronger form, which is also very cheap to get started.

Side note: Most of my friends who tried other builds like lich etc. already quit the game, the ones that are still playing and enjoying are playing LS, obviously.

Also, since everything else got nerfed to the ground, the difference between this build and almost every other build is EXTREME. I hope 0.3 atleast has some better build diversity. For now, I'm just going to wait as investing time to grind with any other build seems really boring, knowing you can just invest a few divines and reach god-tier abilities which you never would with other builds.

Edit: When I mean build diversity, I'm not expecting equal number of monk and huntress players. The issue is the gap in this specific build and 99 % of other builds. It's too wide and de-incentivizes most other playstyles. Cost to effectiveness ratio is unbeaten, and probably will be for the rest of the league.

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Kadath128#6487 wrote:

LS was even buffed in 0.2.0c patch. They clearly WANT everyone playing it.

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I play dot lich, man I wanna use the lighting spear too.

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true wtf, mean while i am slogging af as a chaos socs abide better now

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zeddy123#4861 wrote:

Yeah, but in the Q/A that happened after, they did address this but said they cant nerf it unfortunately as most of the players are playing it. Thats understandable, just unfortunate that the balance is so off atm.

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zeddy123#4861 wrote:

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where did you get this number from?

They mentioned it in the Q/A and you can see Poe2ninja, although ninja numbers are lower as it only counts people who register on the website which is usually POE 1 vets.

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LS was even buffed in 0.2.0c patch. They clearly WANT everyone playing it.

Yeah, but in the Q/A that happened after, they did address this but said they cant nerf it unfortunately as most of the players are playing it. Thats understandable, just unfortunate that the balance is so off atm.

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zeddy123#4861 wrote:

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where did you get this number from?

They mentioned it in the Q/A and you can see Poe2ninja, although ninja numbers are lower as it only counts people who register on the website which is usually POE 1 vets.

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LS was even buffed in 0.2.0c patch. They clearly WANT everyone playing it.

Yeah, but in the Q/A that happened after, they did address this but said they cant nerf it unfortunately as most of the players are playing it. Thats understandable, just unfortunate that the balance is so off atm.